You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the reading passage below. Venus in Transit June 2004 saw the first passage, known as a ‘transit` of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun in 122 years. Transits have helped shape our view of the whole Universe, as Heather Cooper …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the reading passage below. THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: TELEPATHY Can human beings communicate by thought alone? For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community, and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics Since the 1970s, parapsychologists at leading …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 141 below. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA The first students to study alternative medicine at university level in Australia began their four-year, full-time course at the University of Technology, Sydney, in early 1994. Their course covered, among other therapies, acupuncture. The theory they …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are base on the Reading Passage below: The True Cost of Food A For more than forty years the cost of food has been rising. It has now reached a point where a growing number of people believe that it is far too high and that bringing …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 14 which are based on Reading Passage below. Early Telecommunication Devices Although it is hardly used anymore, the telegraph is familiar to most people. This early telecommunication devices is credited, as any school student knows, to Samuel Morse, who, in 1844 made the first long-distance …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Questions 27-30The Reading Passage has six sections, A-F.Choose the correct heading for sections B, C, E and F from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-xi, in boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet._______________________________________________________List of Headings i. MIRTP as a future modelii. Identifying the main transport problemsiii. Preference for motorised …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-27, which are based on Reading Passage below. NATURAL CHOICECoffee and chocolate What’s the connection between your morning coffee, wintering North American birds and the cool shade of a tree? Actually, unite a lot, says Simon Birch. When scientists from London’s Natural History Museum descended on the coffee …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Endangered chocolate A. The cacao tree, once native to the equatorial American forest, has some exotic traits for a plant. Slender and shrubby, the cacao has adapted to life close to the leaf littered forest floor. Its large leaves …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the reading passage below. William Henry Perkin The man who invented synthetic dyes William Henry Perkin was born on March 12, 1838, in London, England. As a boy, Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the arts, sciences. photography, and engineering. But it was …
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